Odonata
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TranslingualEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Ancient Greek ὀδούς (odoús, “tooth”); apparently because they have teeth on their mandibles, although most insects have toothed mandibles, + -ata.
Proper nounEdit
Odonata
- A taxonomic order within the subclass Pterygota – the dragonflies and damselflies.
HypernymsEdit
- (order): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom; Protostomia - infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa - superphylum; Arthropoda - phylum; Hexapoda - subphylum; Insecta - class; Dicondylia - clade; Pterygota - subclass; Metapterygota, Odonatoptera, Holodonata - clades
HyponymsEdit
- (order): Epiprocta (dragonflies and infraorder Epiophlebioptera), Zygoptera (damselflies) (suborders)
- Archizygoptera (clade)
- Permagrionoidea (extinct superfamily, incertae sedis)
ReferencesEdit
- Odonata on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Odonata on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Odonata on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Odonata on Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Odonata at the Tree of Life Web Project
- Odonata at Encyclopedia of Life
- Odonata at Fossilworks
- Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248. pmid:25923521